Youth
Quotes - Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty
“Youth
is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the
ability to see beauty never grows old.”
―
Franz Kafka
“Older
men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”
―
Herbert Hoover
“The
surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those
who think alike than those who think differently.”
―
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Stories
you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who
wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what
happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places
in your mind that you rarely ever visit.”
―
Neil Gaiman, M Is for Magic
“Anybody
can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty
girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old
woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist-a
master-and that is what Auguste Rodin was-can look at an old woman, protray her
exactly as she is...and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to
be...and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an
armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old
and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you
feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew
older than eighteen in her heart...no matter what the merciless hours have done
to her. Look at her, Ben. Growing old doesn't matter to you and me; we were
never meant to be admired-but it does to them.”
―
Robert Heinlein
“In
youth, it was a way I had,
To
do my best to please.
And
change, with every passing lad
To
suit his theories.
But
now I know the things I know
And
do the things I do,
And
if you do not like me so,
To
hell, my love, with you.”
―
Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker
“The
Little Boy and the Old Man
Said
the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon."
Said
the old man, "I do that too."
The
little boy whispered, "I wet my pants."
I do
that too," laughed the little old man.
Said
the little boy, "I often cry."
The
old man nodded, "So do I."
But
worst of all," said the boy, "it seems
Grown-ups
don't pay attention to me."
And
he felt the warmth of a wrinkled old hand.
I
know what you mean," said the little old man.”
―
Shel Silverstein
“Youth
is wasted on the young.”
―
George Bernard Shaw
“Those
sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long.
Good
things come to those who wait.”
―
Jess C. Scott, The Intern
“What
a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but
not the ability.”
―
Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
“Shall
I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou
art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough
winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And
summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometimes
too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And
too often is his gold complexion dimm'd:
And
every fair from fair sometimes declines,
By
chance or natures changing course untrimm'd;
By
thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor
lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor
shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When
in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So
long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So
long lives this and this gives life to thee.”
―
William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets
“The
human body is the best work of art.”
―
Jess C. Scott
“It's
never too late to have a happy childhood.”
―
Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
“A
fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement”
―
Jess C Scott
“When
I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.
If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world,
I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.”
―
Maya Angelou
“Remember,
you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the
ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but
it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because
cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are
afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying “yes”
begins things. Saying “yes” is how things grow. Saying “yes” leads to
knowledge. “Yes” is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength
to, say “yes'.”
―
Stephen Colbert
“It
takes a very long time to become young.”
―
Pablo Picasso
“What
should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the
most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease
of loneliness can be cured.”
―
Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
“It
is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but
the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which
have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the
real, they are bruised and wounded. It looks as if they were victims of a
conspiracy; for the books they read, ideal by the necessity of selection, and
the conversation of their elders, who look back upon the past through a rosy
haze of forgetfulness, prepare them for an unreal life. They must discover for
themselves that all they have read and all they have been told are lies, lies,
lies; and each discovery is another nail driven into the body on the cross of
life.”
― W.
Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
